2 posts tagged “ohio”

What have I done!

Checking out the equality score card to find out if GLBT citizens in my state are second class citizens, I got a shock (not a huge one...but still...)

I have taken you, my Trentie, from a state with a 4.0 score (out of six) to one of the three worst states in the union with a score of 0.5 Ohio is in the company of only Idaho & Mississippi...we're behind Alabama fer Buddha's sake!

How does your state fare?

http://www.equalitygiving.org/States-of-Equality-and-Gay-Rights-Scorecard

(Oh, and it doesn't matter if you pick the state I actually took him from: Massachusettes or the state of his birth: Maine...both have that 4.0 score).

Sigh...

I need a laugh...here:

Thanks to Heather who had this on her Vox & it made me larf so hard...since we live it every morning...minus the bat, though I do have recurring headaches lately, hmmm.

Trent and I were talking the other day about how funny it is that when a movie maker wants to make a character from middle America or from some place totally innocuous, they usually make them from Ohio. "Heathers" takes place in Ohio...Sometimes the movie makers even choose Dayton--did you know "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is set in "Denton" a Dayton clone?

Well, I agree Ohio is pretty much the milk in the icebox of the country.

Why here, we have so much trouble making up names for our towns, we pull them from other states and countries. We've got a Springfield (like everyone else). We've got a London, a Williamsburgh, a Dover, a Concord...but sometimes we like to put our own Ohio-spin on it...exert our individuality and creativity by pronouncing it differently...

Growing up I knew about Bellfountaine (Bell-fountin) and Versailles (Ver-Sales) and Lima (Lyma)...but just recently Trent came across Houston...not pronounced like the venerable town in Texass...but "House-tun"

And my favorite...just heard it today: Russia...in O-HY-O we pronunciate that "Roo-Sea-Ah"